Optimize All The Things

by Bartłomiej Płotka & Ivan Valkov

Welcome to OAT!Join us to discuss ideas and tools that make our software and development processes faster, more efficient, and healthy! We talk about performance improvements and valuable optimizations to software development processes like testing, debugging, running in production, open-sourcing or collaborating. Learn from experts how they improved their products, engineering processes or life habits and apply those in your w... Read more

Podcast episodes

  • Optimizing Freedom as a Digital Nomad with Becky Pauley

    Optimizing Freedom as a Digital Nomad with Becky Pauley

    Working from a tent, prioritizing your electricity between your monitor or cooking dinner, canal boat life, and more. These are some of the things we talked about with Becky Pauley at KubeCon Europe 2023. This episode covers all t...

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  • Optimizing Cloud Native by Interviewing KubeCon EU Attendees: Efficiency, AI adoption, WASM, eBPF

    Optimizing Cloud Native by Interviewing KubeCon EU Attendees: Efficiency, AI adoption, WASM, eBPF

    In this episode we do a little retrospective on the last week KubeCon EU 2023 in Amsterdam. We also share and discuss amazing answers from a few quick interviews Bartek performed with epic KubeCon attendees. You won't believe what...

    52:55
  • Optimizing SRE Productivity with AI feat. Alex Jones, founder of k8sgpt

    Optimizing SRE Productivity with AI feat. Alex Jones, founder of k8sgpt

    AI is already changing how different industries operate with tools like ChatGPT and Github Copilot. Today we talk about a new tool, k8sgpt, that gives you SRE superpowers using AI. We are joined by its creator, Alex Jones - Direct...

    01:10:25
  • Optimizing DevOps and Organizational Structure: Solving The Phoenix Project

    Optimizing DevOps and Organizational Structure: Solving The Phoenix Project

    In this episode Ivan asks Bartek to solve the problems presented in the book "The Phoenix Project". We talk about DevOps, organizational structures, the mythical 10x engineer, the value of mentors, and why Kubernetes does not just...

    01:06:38
  • Optimizing Prometheus Efficiency with Bryan Boreham

    Optimizing Prometheus Efficiency with Bryan Boreham

    Have you ever wondered how people find performance bottlenecks and improve them in complex systems? What tools and techniques work in real life applications? When should you stop optimizing? Well, this is the episode for you. Our ...

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